One down, One to go.

So, the snow in Ottawa is kinda getting ridiculous. Just a little anyway. In some of the areas around my apartment the snow is almost up to my knees. And there is so much snow in the passage between my building and the road that you have to climb up about two feet of pack snow to pass through.

This is awesome cause I love snow and cold. I definitely have to plan a playing in the snow party soon.

Other then that the last week or so has been fairly busy which does not happen too often. Last week I had to go to a christmas party at my Grandmother's retirement home. The Colonel-By retirement home is really nice and the party was pretty good with some decent food so that was good.

After that was my dad's birthday which was on saturday and I still have not finished his socks but there should be done soon. My dad doesn't really do birthday celebrations so there wasn't a party of anything. That day I also make cookies for my boyfriend to take to work and brownies for my stoner friends. We watched Paprika late that night. It is a wicked awesome movie that everyone should see. Its about a technology that allows people to dive into the dreams of anyone who is attached to it. Then a dream virus starts going through anyone that has uses it and the main character has to stop it and what is behind it to save her friends and the world. It is so full of random craziness. The music is really good too. I recommend it to anyone and everyone.

My boyfriend and I also had to go for dinner to his parents house for dinner as well as tree decorating. Busy night, good food, and cool antique decorations.

After that was my children's lit exam on tuesday. I am sure that I did alright but I think I could have done better if I had reread all the books for the semester before the exam but now I know for the next exam.

I have also finished lots of books that I borrowed. So here we go.

Endyamon Spring: I forgot this one last time. I also cannot remember who it is by since I already gave it back. It is about a boy living in Oxford while his mother is working there. While looking around the library he finds a book which has a strange cover and no words. This book then leads him on an adventure to try to find a special book before the enemy does. I thought it was a decent book not fantastic but not terrible either. I think that most young boys (like 12-13 years old maybe) and maybe girls that like sorta fantasy books would like it. There is a little violence in it but not too much.

Piratica by Tanith Lee. This is about a girl in an alternate universe to the year 1800. After a minor accident she remembers that her mother was a pirate and she wants that life back instead of the boring one she has now. She finds her mother's old crew only to find out they were actors and not pirates. She decides that they will become pirates but the kind that do not kill or sink ships and only take goods through trickery and intelligence. At first I found the book a bit hard to read since I think that the author was aiming to write in an older style but once you get past that I found it to be a decent book which I think that young teenage girls would like cause it is the story of a girl who wants to find her true self. There is also a second book.

The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick. In general I like this guys books but I found this one to be weird. It is about a girl in England during World War One who has the ability to see flashes of the future when she touches people or things that belong to people who are destined to die. She starts to see the deaths of the soldiers that she cares for at the nearby hospital. Then she sees the death of one brother then the other. After the family hears of the first brothers death and the second goes to war she runs way to France to save her brother from the death she sees for him. This is definitely not a book for the young or easily frightened. It is violent and creepy and recalls how bad the french front lines were during the war. I found it to be good and well written but kind of hard to read at times. Anyone who reads the Sedgwick books would probably like them but be warned that although they may seem like a book for youth it is violent and make sure that they are ready for it before you give it to them.

Stavaganza: City of Masks by Mary Hoffman. This is about a boy who has cancer and after getting a notebook from his dad he can move to an alternate universe which is like Italy but different. He then has to help the leader of this city save it. I really liked this book and plan to enjoy the other books. This is a good series that many kids would like. I also think that a lot of adults would like the books too.

Esther by Sharon E. Mckay. This book is about the first Jew to get to new France. The main character goes through many different situations and hard times after she is sent away by her family and her ship is shipwrecked and her family thinks she is dead. At first I really didn't like the book too much but it got better as it went on. I would think that a lot of people would like it but especally teenage girls.

The Serpent's Egg by J. FitzGerald McCurdy. Its about a girl who finds out that she is actually an elf after a Demon escapes her prison and threatens the world with destruction. This was also a good book which is set in Ottawa and written by a Canadian. It was a neat book and it was nice that it was set in Canada and Ottawa since it is not too often that books are set here. I know a lot of young adults or whatever 12 year olds are called liked this book when it came out and I would recommend it to anyone and I think that it might be a good book to get non readers to read.

Well that is all for now. I will post knitting pics soon and maybe some patterns if I can get around to typing out the patterns
Go play in the snow if you have it. The fun will make anyone feel better.